Fierce Healthcare November 29, 2023
Accountable care organizations do not positively influence treatment and outcomes for chronic mental health conditions for Medicare patients, according to a study in Health Affairs.
For patients newly enrolled in ACOs, they saw no improvements in their depression and anxiety symptoms after one year. These patients were also 24% less likely to have their depression or anxiety treated than patients unenrolled in ACOs, and 9.8% less likely to have an evaluation and management visit for depression or anxiety with a primary care clinician.
Since mental health conditions in Medicare patients are often underdiagnosed and undertreated, some have suspected that mental health illnesses are ideal conditions for ACOs to handle, but the study found that there were no significant differences in...
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